Anna Seghers

Sieben Gefangene sind aus dem Konzentrationslager Westhofen geflohen, aber nur einer erreicht das rettende Ufer. Auf seinem Fluchtweg trifft Georg Heisler auf Manner und Frauen, die sich entscheiden mussen zwischen Verrat und Treue, egoistischer Abkehr und Mitmenschlichkeit, Denunziation und Solidaritat.Anna Seghers schrieb ihren beruhmten Roman in Paris, einer Zwischenstation auf ihrer lebensgefahrlichen Flucht vor den Nazis ins Exil, mit der Souveranitat einer Schriftstellerin von Weltrang und einer Klarsicht, die die Lekture bis heute zur tief beruhrenden existenziellen Erfahrung macht. Der Text ist durchdrungen von Seghers'' eigenen Erfahrungen und dem inneren Bild ihrer rheinhessischen Heimat.Die vorliegende Ausgabe folgt dem Wortlaut der Erstausgabe von 1942 unter Berucksichtigung der heute gultigen Rechtschreibung und Interpunktion.Mit einem Nachwort von Thomas von Steinaecker.

Publicado por primera vez en alemán en 1980, es el último trabajo de la gran escritora alemana Anna Seghers. Las tres historias del tríptico se refieren a mujeres atrapadas en eventos históricos a lo largo de casi quinientos años de historia haitiana, comenzando con la epoca de los viajes exploratorios de Cristobal Colon al Nuevo Mundo y terminando en la decada de 1970 con las medidas represivas del regimen de Bebe Doc Duvalier. Estos tres retratos de mujeres atrapadas en situaciones que amenazan sus vidas conforman un trabajo esencial de testimonio, demostrando la perenne preocupacion de Seghers, como escritora revolucionaria, por dar voz a los marginados.El ultimo libro de una de las mejores escritoras europeas del siglo xx. Anna Seghers vuelve a dar voz a los marginadosUna de las grandes escritoras europeas del siglo XX.

Anna Segherss Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Segherss multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase containing letters and the manuscript of a novel. As he makes his way to Marseille to find Weidels widow, the narrator assumes the identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseille, the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrators deathly boredom, bringing him to a deeper awareness of the transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for that most precious of possessions: transit papers.

Publicado por primera vez en alemán en 1980, es el último trabajo de la gran escritora alemana Anna Seghers. Las tres historias del tríptico se refieren a mujeres atrapadas en eventos históricos a lo largo de casi quinientos años de historia haitiana, comenzando con la epoca de los viajes exploratorios de Cristobal Colon al Nuevo Mundo y terminando en la decada de 1970 con las medidas represivas del regimen de Bebe Doc Duvalier. Estos tres retratos de mujeres atrapadas en situaciones que amenazan sus vidas conforman un trabajo esencial de testimonio, demostrando la perenne preocupacion de Seghers, como escritora revolucionaria, por dar voz a los marginados.

Apres sa mort, au cours dune longue errance dans lau-dela, une femme revit soudain un moment merveilleux de son enfance : une excursion sur une ile avec ses camarades de classe. Elle le revit en sachant quel avenir est reserve a chacun de ceux qui lentourent ce jour-la. Cela se passe en Allemagne, peu de temps avant la Premiere Guerre mondiale, et quelques annees avant la sombre periode ou tous devront choisir leur camp, sauf ceux qui, parce quils sont juifs, nauront dautre possibilite que de fuir ou se cacher. Present et futur se melent, colorant ce recit dune nostalgie presque melancolique : cet apres-midi apparait comme une derniere parenthese enchantee avant la noirceur des temps a venir. Marianne, Leni et moi avions toutes trois enlace nos bras en un geste de solidarite qui ne faisait que refleter la grande unite de toutes choses sous le soleil. Marianne appuyait toujours sa tete contre celle de Leni. Comment devait-il etre possible, plus tard, que penetrat dans ses pensees la folie mensongere qui leur fit croire, a elle et a son mari, quils detenaient le monopole de lamour de ce pays et quils pouvaient a bon droit mepriser et denoncer la jeune fille contre laquelle en cet instant elle sappuyait ? A. S.

Marseille, 1940. Déserteurs, juifs, opposants pourchassés par la Wehrmacht, tous sont acculés sur les rivages de la Méditerranée, en attente dun embarquement vers la liberté. Le héros de Transit est lui aussi pris dans cette veritable souriciere, soumis a labsurdite administrative et au pouvoir abusif des passeurs. Dans cette terrible atmosphere, il usurpe alors lidentite de Paul Weidel, romancier, et rencontre Marie, en quete desesperee de lhomme quelle aime... Dans ce roman a haute portee politique et existentielle, Anna Seghers explore les tourments de lexil avec une acuite extraordinaire.

At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitlers Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document. This new, unabridged translation is a genuine publishing event - Joseph Kanon, author of The Good German and Leaving BerlinA masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight RACHEL SEIFFERT author of A Boy in WinterSeven prisoners escape from Westhofen concentration camp. Seven crosses are erected in the grounds and the commandant vows to capture the fugitives within a week. Six men are caught quickly, but George Heisler slips through his pursuers fingers. It becomes a matter of pride to track him down, at whatever cost.Who can George trust? Who will betray him? The years of fear have changed those he knew best: his brother is now an SS officer; his lover turns him away. Hunted, injured and desperate, time is running out for George, and whoever is caught aiding in his escape will pay with their life.The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful and influential novels of the twentieth century, a tense thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany.It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision GUNTER GRASSA fascinating insight into life in pre-war Nazi Germany just as the horrors of the Nazi regime were beginning to unfold. This is an important novel, as much for its picture of German society as for its insight into the psyche of ordinary people confronting their personal fears and mixed loyalties SIMON MAWER, author of The Glass RoomIn The Seventh Cross, Segherss aim was to write, A tale that makes it possible to get to know the many layers of fascist Germany through the fortunes of a single man. She had four copies of the manuscript: one was destroyed in an air raid; a friend lost the second copy while fleeing the Nazis; another was found by the Gestapo; only the fourth copy survived, which, fortunately, she sent to her publisher in America just before she escaped Nazi-occupied France. Published in 1942, The Seventh Cross was an immediate bestseller and was the basis for an MGM film starring Spencer Tracy in 1944. It has been translated into more than 40 languages.Margot Bettauer Dembos expert new translation makes the complete text of this great political novel available in English for the first time.

A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross.Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Segherss best stories, written between 1925 and 1965, displays the range of her creativity over the years. It includes her most famous short fiction, such as the autobiographical The Dead Girls Class Trip, and others, like Jans Is Going to Die, that have been translated into English here for the first time. There are psychologically penetrating stories about young men corrupted by desperation and women bound by circumstance, as well as enigmatic tales of bewilderment and enchantment based on myths and legends, like The Best Tales of Woynok, the Thief, The Three Trees, and Tales of Artemis. In her stories, Seghers used the German language in especially unconventional and challenging ways, and Margot Bettauer Dembos sensitive and skilled translation preserves this distinction.

INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-firstAn existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, Transit explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary compassion and insight. Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany and a work camp in Rouen, the nameless narrator finds himself in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he was asked to deliver a letter to Weidel, a writer in Paris whom he discovered had killed himself as the Nazis entered the city. Now he is in search of the dead mans wife. He carries Weidels suitcase, which contains an unfinished novel - and a letter securing Weidel a visa to escape France.Assuming the name Seidler - though the authorities think he is in fact Weidel - he goes from cafe to cafe looking for Marie, who is in turn anxiously searching for her husband. As Seidler converses with refugees over pizza and wine, their stories gradually break down his ennui, bringing him a deeper awareness of the transitory world they inhabit as they wait and wait for that most precious of possessions: transit papers.This novel, completed in 1942, is in my opinion the most beautiful Seghers has written . . . almost flawless - Heinrich Boll

Después de escapar de un campo de concentración nazi en Alemania en 1937, y luego de otro campo en Ruan, el narrador alemán sin nombre de veintisiete años de la obra maestra de Seghers termina en el polvoriento puerto maritimo de Marsella. En el camino, se le pide que entregue una carta a un hombre llamado Weidel en Paris y descubre que Weidel se suicido, dejando una maleta que contiene cartas y el manuscrito de una novela. Mientras se dirige a Marsella para encontrar a la viuda de Weidel, el narrador asume la identidad de un refugiado llamado Seidler, aunque las autoridades creen que en realidad es Weidel. Alli va reconstruyendo la historia de Weidel. Las novelas de Anna Seghers no solo cuentan historias de terror, huida y opresion; son una llamada a la compasion y la solidaridad. Fernanda Melchor

Dans les années 30, sept opposants au nazisme s’enfuient d’un camp.Un formidable appareil policier est mis en branle pour les retrouver et sept croix sont dressées. Aidés par la solidarité ouvrière o

"Der Lektureschlussel erschliet Anna Seghers"Der Ausflug der toten Madchen". Um eine Interpretation als Zentrum gruppieren sich 10 wichtige Verstandniszugange:* Erstinformation zum Werk* Inhaltsangabe* Personen (Konstellationen)* Werk-Aufbau (Strukturskizze)* Wortkommentar* Interpretation* Autor und Zeit* Rezeption* "Checkliste" zur Verstandniskontrolle* Lekturetipps mit Filmempfehlungen

Alemania, otoño de 1936. Siete hombres se fugan del campo de concentración de Westhofen; sólo uno de ellos, Georg Heisler, consigue salvarse. Anna Seghers traza un cuadro completo de un sector del pueblo aleman y describe la fuerza y voluntad inquebrantable del ser humano que lucha por sobrevivir en un pais dominado por el fascismo. La autora transmite a traves de varias historias que se entrelazan el ambiente de angustia y terror que se vivia en el Tercer Reich.

La excursión de las muchachas muertas (primero de los tres relatos que conforman el presente volumen) fue escrito por Anna Seghers durante su exilio en México, país al que la escritora alemana huyó tras la ascension del nazismo. Estamos ante una autentica obra maestra, lirica y a la vez terrible, que contiente todos los elementos que constituyen la esencia de la poetica de su autora: lucida critica sociopolitica, hondo conocimiento de la grandeza y las miserias de la condicion humana, y la tragica e imborrable huella con que el horror de la guerra marca el destino de los hombres.

1940, Marsella, una puerta hacia la libertad. Millares de personas que huyen del fascismo alemán, personas de todas partes de Europa, luchan por conseguir visados, sellos, certificados para poder abandonar el continente. Sus caminos se cruzan en su carrera de oficina en oficina. Durante un breve periodo, las vidas ajenas estan unidas por esperanzas, pasiones, deseos. Los recuerdos estan grabados a fuego: para el narrador, los de un doloroso amor por aquella mujer que buscaba las huellas de su esposo muerto.